View synonyms for accurately

accurately

[ ak-yer-it-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a way that is free from error or defect and consistent with a standard, rule, or model:
She worked on aircraft before they left on missions; the work needed to be done fast and accurately to ensure safety on all flights.
correctly; precisely:
He’s a good lacrosse player; he passes well and can shoot accurately.
Humans are generally afraid of death—or, more accurately, don't want to die.

If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.

These self-dubbed gear heads go toe to toe (or perhaps more accurately, crash to crash), with the men in the sport.

Nor is his face, or more accurately the shape of the hair that hides his face, easy to forget.

Or perhaps more accurately, a man, in his last years, especially but not exclusively consumed by affairs of the spirit.

Much of this has been pure, or more accurately, impure, political theater.

The dilution can be more accurately made in the leukocyte pipet of the Thoma-Zeiss instrument.

The bridge should be fitted as accurately as the post, and as though it grew from the belly, the feet touching equally all round.

Within a few more months he determined on constructing an engine for the purpose of more accurately testing those views.

His eyes were again fixed upon her as though gauging accurately the extent of his influence upon her.

In fact both girls had learned to tell the time very accurately by the sun.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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